Indonesia's Bakrie Group Says Phones, Emails Hacked

   By Ben Otto 
 

JAKARTA--Indonesia's Bakrie Group Wednesday said it had filed a police report saying its companies' email accounts and telephones had been hacked in a series of recent security attacks.

Christopher Fong, the company's senior vice president, told Dow Jones Newswires that the company had filed a report with the National Police's Cyber Crimes Unit.

"We've also notified police of some of the names we suspect are behind this," he said, adding that the hacking had been going on for "days, if not weeks."

Officials from the National Police and the Cyber Crimes Unit were not immediately available for comment.

The announcement comes just as the board of directors of London-listed Bumi PLC, a major shareholder in the Bakrie-controlled coal miner PT Bumi Resources Tbk (BUMI.JK), prepares to meet Thursday in Singapore. The meeting will be the board's first since announcing a probe into what it calls financial and other irregularities at Bumi Resources.

An official at Bumi Resources, Indonesia's largest coal miner, declined to comment on reports of hacking.

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